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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I got confused reading through this thread.

Did anyone refute this claim?

In the Wisconsin study, 60% more staff got infected than people in the general community.[/quote]

No, no one has refuted it, but when I said so I was told I can't read.

Staff infection rate = 8868.5/100k. Total county rate is 5466/100k, inclusive of those in and out of school, whether adults or kids. 8868.5/5466 = 1.62, which is roughly 62% higher. (This is not quite apples-to-apples, but 100% adults vs. a group that's likely 75-80+% adults is much closer to apples-to-apples than the comparison given in the study that has 88% kids in the school group.)

The study does not provide the numbers to split the non-school community members into kids and adults, but the weighted average (kids + adults) non-school rate is either 4746 (if you use 3393 total cases and 73k total county population) or 5631 (if you assume 3393 was a typo for 3993, which allows the 5466 overall rate for all people to be correct.). Either of the 4746 or 5631 has some unknown number of non-school kids*, so the non-school adult numbers would be higher, but they cannot approach 8868 when we know 5466 is the total county rate.

*We could estimate the number of virtual kids from the numbers given in the study, but they didn't mention those not yet in school.
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